9 August
Coventry City supporters may well be thinking that at
long last they are being proved to have been right in their condemnation of the
clubs owners SISU. The FA has stepped in and ordered SISU to pay ACL Ltd, the owners
of the Ricoh Arena over £400K in rent arrears. There is still a lot more
arrears to pay though. Now SISU say they are ready to talk to ACL about a
return to the Ricoh. However, considering that they have lost every action they’ve
tried to wriggle out of paying up, I fail to see how they can return without
losing even more face than they already have. It would be interesting to find
out just how much all this has cost them and the ACL over the years it’s taken
to sort this out. I’m sure it would have been a lot cheaper to have paid up in
the first place.
ACL is partly owned by Coventry City Council, so some
of the rent owed to ACL is needed by the council to help fund services. Only
this last week the council has closed the 50m pool in the city centre because it
can’t afford to keep it open; nor can it afford to build a new one. Perhaps the
rent owed to them by SISU might have helped to keep it open. A 50m pool of
course is a large pool; it’s an Olympic sized pool and there are few of them
available within the UK as it is. There isn’t one another one within our
region. Then the public asks why so many athletes move aboard to keep up their
training.
Such short sightedness by councils is a national issue
really, and one now restricted just to sports venues. How many useless pieces of
public art have you seen locally? Dorktown has had quite a few over the years.
There was the huge white concrete heron that stood over the entrance to the Heronway
shopping arcade in the town centre. That is now flat on its back in the council
yard waiting for someone to come up with an idea where to use it. It was
removed when the arcade was sold and renamed the Abbeygate.
Then there was statue of two naked wrestlers that was
in Bond Gate. One of the wrestlers had his delicate bits removed (yes, sounds
painful,) so often that the council removed it after several years and repeated
repairs. Last I heard was that it was sitting in their yard too, but as a pile
of rubble this time because they couldn’t remove it in one piece.
I’m sure you will have heard of Billy
Pointywobblystick from Strafford. But have you ever heard of Izaak Walton? No;
well, I’m not surprised really but if you are an angler you may well have heard
of him. He was born in 1598 and went on to write a book called The Complete Angler in Strafford as
well. Are you be any chance old enough to remember all the fuss n bovver over
Brighton opening Britain’s first nudist beach in 1979? The big fear at the time
was of creating depravity.
Over the years I have fancied many different cars and
could never afford them. Here’s another one I fancied …
A Ford Zephier 6. This
is the first one I’ve seen in years. Perhaps it was the old telly show called Z Cars was behind my fancy at the time.
Yes I know, I’m showing my age again.
Today’s funny is also from the motor museum … and yes,
it’s no better than yesterday’s …
Q Did you
hear about the wooden car, with wooden wheels and wooden engine?
A It
wooden go either.
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